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noun
A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: billfish, Scomberesox saurus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: teleost fish, teleost, teleostan
History
Eggcorn of Japanese 佐伊羅 (saira). By surface analysis, -saur (“dinosaur or other extinct reptile”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
